Amusing comic strip: Jack Chick meets God.

The ironic bit is that the strip condemns Chick for condemning others.

Less amusing behaviors.

Don’t overdecorate to the point that people can’t read your bloody web page.

Another pet peeve to add to the list:

Websites whose background image make it impossible to read the text.

Were you wondering what the others were? I don’t make an official list. I simply let God deal with them until they’re no longer on the list.

Non-loving "Christians" have always been on that list, though. That’s why I included the cartoon. I suspect they’re one of Jesus’s pet peeves too; He used to gripe about people that call him “Lord” yet never did what he told them; and he ordered them to love one another, their neighbors, and their enemies. In other words, everyone. They don’t do that, yet they still call themselves Christian. I blame them every time a non-Christian calls us a bunch of hypocrites.

Again, it’s a pet peeve that God has to deal with. He manages to love them anyway; I still have to work at it.

Evil bastards in the laundry room.

One of my bigger pet peeves is when people are just destructively selfish.

Today each time I came back to the laundry room, someone had taken my things out of the machine she (likely a she) wanted to use, and left it elsewhere in the laundry room. Once it was even mixed with someone else’s wet clothes.

When stuff like this happens to me, I blow it off; life is too short to be upset by other people’s stupidity. But I’ve been thinking—it’s not just me that this person does this to. Likely she’s a self-centered jerk who only cares about getting her laundry done, quickly. She could give a rip about anyone’s stuff. But she needs someone to harsh on her—to have a little reality crack into her self-focused world—so that next time she will give a rip about someone’s stuff. Unfortunately, that doesn’t work, because such people are so self-centered that they take criticism as the critic’s problem, not theirs. She’d just go on her merry way, leaving piles of other people’s wrinkling laundry behind her.

Until she’s assaulted in a public laundromat. Nah; I’m being too optimistic again.

Stupid Internet Survey: What color am I?

You are light goldenrod yellow
Your dominant hues are red and green, so you're definately not afraid to get in and stir things up. You have no time for most people's concerns; you'd rather analyze with your head than be held back by some random "gut feeling". Your saturation level is very low; you have better things to do than jump headfirst into every little project. You make sure your actions are going to really accomplish something before you start because you hate wasting energy making everyone else think you're working. Your outlook on life is bright. You see good things in situations where others may not be able to, and it frustrates you to see them get down on everything.
the spacefem.com html color quiz

What color am I? Uh… pale peach with brown spots.

Familiar with this?

So by checking a bunch of little boxes I have discovered that I like red and green, which I knew already; but the rest of it is utter crap. I overcommit myself. I analyze things to death because my gut feelings hold me back. I could care less if everyone thinks I'm working; I am working. I am more optimistic than many people, but I'm also more realistic than them too.

The only connection I have with light goldenrod yellow is that it's the color I was when I was born. (Jaundice, you see.) Quite obviously this quiz was not created by a trained psychologist.

Kung fu movies and visiting New Hope.

Kent’s Recommended Watch: Ang Lee:
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

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Visited a church, then watched a kung fu movie. A little Christianity, a little Taoism.

Finally got around to watching my DVD of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. (Got it through Amazon about three weeks ago, but never had the time to watch it.)

Sundays are great for kicking back and watching a good movie. I find it fascinating how Taoism and the medieval European Great Chain of Being resemble one another. Most theologians think there’s something to that which indicates a common predilection towards order in humanity. That may be true, but it’s not something we can know for certain.

Funny how kung fu movies make me all philosophical.

The presidential debates.

Between the weaselly behavior and the habeas corpus violations, Bush annoys me.

I found the vice-presidential debate on CSPAN’s website and watched it. Likely I’ll watch the next presidential debate in the same way.

George W. Bush’s behavior annoys me in these debates. It’s because his personality reminds me of someone I used to work for; nice guy in public, says all the right things, very friendly and charismatic, and so forth. Then you get him back to the office and discover he’s a weasel. Now, I have no evidence that Bush is such a person. In fact, from what I’ve read about his public and private acts, I suspect that’s what type of person he used to be, possibly when he was drinking. He’s a recovering weasel.

Public prayer.

Kent’s Recommended Listen:

John Coltrane:
A Love Supreme (Deluxe Edition)

Playing right now: A Love Supreme is the album John Coltrane wrote for God. It shows. I just got the newly digitally remastered version, which fixed that glitch in track 1 and includes the live 1964 performace of A Love Supreme. (True jazz fans appreciate the difference.)

My public prayers were turning into performances, so I stopped doing that for now.

Today the campus has its 24-hour prayer thingy. I am all for prayer. I always need to pray more often. Gotta listen to God.

I am, on the other hand, getting more self-conscious about my public prayers.